Political Quotes

“I thank my friend from New Hampshire who cares so much about this issue and has done a great job. And I will just be brief on that because I want to talk about Russell Vought. As is clear, we Democrats--I, certainly--I hate the ICC. I have hated it for 40 years. We have to come to--we have to get something done, but there has got to be a fair compromise. And the compromise has nothing to do with weakening any efforts that the ICC will be punished for what they do to Israel, which I think is anti-Semitic. But there are other things in that bill that would sanction other people--other countries, other leaders, other businesses, American businesses--that have nothing to do with Israel. Jeanne Shaheen, our Senator from New Hampshire, made a valiant effort to compromise, and we could have had it done, because there was problems with the rest of the bill. It was poorly drafted and went way beyond what it was supposed to do. We are ready to compromise. We are ready to sit down and get this bill done. The Israeli Ambassador said, at our meeting, he wanted a bipartisan compromise, and I told him we are ready to sit down and do just that.”